« Absolu » n’est peut-être pas le dernier mot d’un discours qui se refuserait d’aller plus loin, ni le terme ultime d’une pensée hésitant à prolonger son audace spéculative.
A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction--from one of its pioneer practitionersThe challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction.
Become a more effective and powerful communicator in today's highly polarized and polluted public squareThe most pressing problem we face today is not climate change.
The first critical survey of its kind devoted solely to literary evaluation Companion to Literary Evaluation bridges the gap between the non-academic literary world, where evaluation is deeply ingrained, and the world of academia, where evaluation is rarely considered.
This groundbreaking guide describes six seemingly different popular movies and genres (Skyfall, The Avengers, The Hangover, A Beautiful Mind, The Conjuring, Gone Girl) and shows screenwriters how they all follow the exact same 120 Universal Story Beats minute by minute.
This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century.
Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters is a fully translated English edition of a three-volume account published by Nikolai Gretsch (1787-1867) in Russian in 1839.
Nul hasard si, dès 1971, le pianiste Ben Sidran sous-titrait son ouvrage Black Talk par la formule : How the Music of Black America Created a Radical Alternative to the Values of Western Literary Tradition.
Si l’esthétique classique a promu le « je ne sais quoi », difficile à définir et expliquer précisément, mais dont la grâce peut conduire au sublime, peut-être Balzac a-t-il élevé au titre de grand art moderne et mis au cœur de sa création un « je ne sais quoi de romanesque [.
Karl Kraus a marqué la Vienne du début du xxe siècle par ses polémiques et ses satires incissives, qui lui ont probablement valu autant d’admirateurs que de contestataires.
Célébré de son vivant, Marcel Aymé a aujourd’hui mauvaise réputation : devenu persona non grata de la République des lettres, il encourt le risque d’être déclaré illisible.
Working from a writer's perspective, this book explores these Three Wells and helps you con-sciously draw from them to develop new scripts, or strengthen old ones.
